I find it surprising that this issue is simplified to cost of storage. As others noted, who cares about the cost/employee for storage. What's much more important is the cost of information retrieval. I'd like to make a comparison with paper storage, because much research has been done there to cut costs. So putting aside physical storage costs, if you store all crap for a while, the storage just becomes a black hole where nothing can be found back. Storing crap is human nature, a "what if I need this document in two years?" even if the chance is very small. However, it turned out it's -much- more cost efficient to indiscriminately nuke stuff that wasn't labeled vital after not being referenced for three months (your mileage may vary). In those few cases where old documents were needed, the combined cost to reproduce them is much lower. In the meantime, you have a relative very clean and light information store where you can easily find things that are relevant to what you're doing and have recently been doing.
This is of course a classic:
Unfinanced entrepeneurs. That said, this guy said he would invest some cash. Which makes me wonder why he just doesn't hire a guy.
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Point is, managers manage people. You are there to code.. not them.
Funny thing: here in the Netherlands, for lawyers, it's illegal to be managed by someone without a law degree. In other words, lawyers must be managed by lawyers.
I guess there's something they know, that you don't.
Webkit page rendering has always been very fast. On Windows, Chrome feels like Safari. John Resig has some benchmarks for the javascript engines. Disclaimer: He is a guy from Mozilla. http://ejohn.org/blog/javascript-performance-rundown/.
Summary: Javascript performance should feel about the same. Google is guilty of pr crap with their own "benchmark".
Upgrade, upgrade, they all want us to upgrade. The battles of the upgrades. Us against them.
Them: Windows Update, which frequently updates itself, and every time it tries again to override my settings of no automatic update in a sneaky way.
Them: Adobe PDF Viewer. I usually hate PDF because it is used in all the wrong places, but when I do download a PDF once a month, I can't view it without trouble, because Adobe -will- hassle me first with their one trillionth critical update of a little viewer, which of course is a huge download. They are -always- updating the viewer. Nightly builds?
Them: Google Update. What? Never asked for it, bumped into it by chance, removed it, and a few days later it will be back. Blech. I don't want DoubleClick installing auto-loading software behind my back which talks behind my back to the Internets.
Me, I'd vote for special, aggressive anti-update virus functionality in all popular anti-virus products.
That said, Steve Balmer must be kicked through the streets, tarred and feathered, for MS' non-update policy to enforce OS updates or to slow the web apps evolution. Everyone still running IE6 must be rounded up and forced to install a decent browser.
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Of course you do.
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I'd like to close this discussion since you don't seem to be even aware that DoubleClick is Google. Sweet dreems, dude.
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Whoa, you seem to be getting quite worked up about a browser release.
Did I? More like a independent run down of not so good things, that the fan boys, like you, can't handle. Like I said, they then continue to brush and laugh away every fair criticism (that style is sign of weakness and lack of substance), like some Obama/Paul/Apple pr victim. Just look at yourself, mister Google pr man. Are you getting paid for this? Geez, dude, calm down, it's just a browser by DoubleClick.
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It's funny you call Firefox users fan boys, while at the same time stating:
Chrome right now is the browser everyone has been dreaming of.
Well, I haven't been dreaming of a webkit browser since I already had two installed, but moreover, I haven't been dreaming of:
Custom "skin" like some amateur h4ck0r toy which ignores my OS;
Ads.. lots of them;
Politics in my web browser..e.g. can't turn off javascript, because Google wants to battle MS with web apps;
Enormous memory consumption to avoid that once-a-week crash where Firefox neatly restores your mission criticle tab sessions of women in undressed states;
Tried to get away with an Evil License;
Fan boys worse than Obama, Paul and Apple fan boys combined, who you thought were intelligent people before, but then proceeded to brush away and defend the above.
Me, I like the little interface conventions like those that minimize screen estate such as the lack of browser bar while still giving the info, and the webkit speed. For the rest - who gives a shit about some browser by DoubleClick. Now who is exactly the fan boy again? Are you emotionally attached in some way to DoubleClick?
Same thing. What's in a name? Apparently enough for an entire collective of product for advertisers/Slashdot users to use a browser by an ad broker who sells that product to clients. Sirs, Madams, I'm calling you nuts. Get a grip.
With that "explanation" the translation is: Local police admits to killing him and even laughs in our faces about it: lalala what can you do?
It is ment to be a warning by using terror and showing that they can get away with it - with anything - so you know that, if you have any ideas, the same might happen to you: get shot in the face while some transparent (by design) excuse is laughed back at the world. It's an extra insult, but most of all, just plan old terror.
Ehm, truth and lies are not direct instruments of truth and deception in Russia. More like FY's. Take for example Georgia and Russia's initial "promises" to the west. Everybody on both sides knows it's all lies, that's not the point - it's their way of saying F*ck You.
Bullocks. As a Dutch guy, may I remind you English is mandatory on Dutch high schools, and, depending on level on education, one or two more languages (in 9/10 cases, French and/or German).
Before 9/11 Europeans just called us "fat and ugly", now they can call us "warmongerer's". Which is Ironic considering that the worse humanitarian disaster in the history of humanity was caused exclusively by Europeans (WWI and WWII).
While there is truth in that, I also think that is quite a statement coming from an Anonymous Coward from the only country on earth who ever used the atomic bomb. Twice. On civilian targets. WWII was dirty beyond imagination from both sides - and that includes the USA.
I run a small European software company..if I'd be hiring an American, I wouldn't be sure what to make of the difference between a "3rd tier" university and Harvard. It can mean anything or nothing, and anything in between. The Harvard guy could have been at Harvard because of many reasons, such as being brilliant, being rich, being connected, etc. Bush graduated at Harvard, I think. The 3rd tier guy could be average, or someone with less financial opportunity, and thus very motivated, whatever. I myself didn't do so great at university. I was a little bit too playful after cruising through high school. (Funnily that worked out great for me, as the playful directions I took turned out to be the next great thing (the Internet) and I was ahead.) Since then I have had many conversations with people with higher grades from more respectable universities, and what can you say? Nothing. The first guy could be much smarter than you, the second might be useless, etc. You have to take them one by one and look at their actual capabilities and intelligence. That said, I think in 9/10 cases there is a big difference between the Computer Science (and software engineering) educated and others, such as self-learners.
That said, the whole idea behind the bad credit card security in general is that Mastercard/Visa etc. regard it cheaper to have relatively bad security and reimburse people when accounts get mobbed, than to have a more secure setup. In general I think that's a healthy attitude if the numbers count up. Of course, we're all paying for that, but we'd also all be paying for better security. The above isn't entirely true anymore, because the design of those setups precedes the Internet and millions of credit card number being stolen by some crackers isn't cost effective by any means, and they're slowly switching (in my area anyway, the EU) to credit cards with pin codes.
Of course, the traditional reply to this argument is that the scope of your traditional security scenarios is locally limited. A lock picker from Elbonia won't trouble you. A script kiddie with a cracklib and a password file might.
We're reaching another tipping point. For example, if you live in the UK, you got the EU internet data retention directive, National ID program, Integrated communications records database, National DNA database, Vehicle movements database, Enhanced CRB database, PNR database, Bank record and credit card monitoring databases, etc. etc.
We're at a tipping point where our privacy is not only taken away completely, but gives way to complete, total control.
In this case, I think it's relevant to mention that Vint Cerf, despite all his legandary accomplishments, is now an ad broker who makes a living by selling your privacy. That billions are involved and that the company he works for prefers profit over privacy and human rights (e.g. China). And that Vint failed to mention this in his optimism.
It's all a toolbox and people pretending otherwise have agendas that range from personal to political and monetary issues.
Hey man, I think you've managed to take away the difference between all multiform products by rendering valid reasons for product diversification as irrelevant.
Ferrari or Skoda - It's all a transportation vehicle and people pretending otherwise have agendas that range from personal to political and monetary issues.
Caviar and spam - Just the same thing and people pretending otherwise have agendas that range from personal to political and monetary issues.
Following the big financial success of Indy IV, Lucas has decided to further pursue the theme of self parodying absurdities. Mel Brooks has been cast as the new Indy. Rick Moranis is close to being signed as the new bad guy. Work title: Indiana Jones and The Power of The Schwartz.
Parent is underrated. No matter how much sympathy you got for the guy, it's more or less like those people selling new cartoon ideas in the classic Unfinanced Entrepreneurs. You will be on the huge pile described there. There's no shortage of good ideas, on the opposite, it's a mountain range of "good" ideas that will smother your good idea. In the meantime, economics will probably render them all impossible and targeted companies will make another 3d shooter. Again, this is not how I like it to be, this is the reality.
We've been there, done that, recycled the arguments, and done it again. The GPL folks will say it's not about your definition of freedom, but about fredom of code, freedom for the programmer, etc. etc.
I too particularly dislike their redefinition of the word free for their own purposes. I don't mind their license, it's choice, but it would have been much better if it was presented exactly like that, dryly stating that changes mast be passed back and such. But they decided it to be a gigantic troll, and made it worse by claiming their redefinition is the only freedom, so others, BSD in particular, are not "free" by default. That troll destabilizes the hackers scene, by intend. It's the world turned around for political purposes. And now we also got MS throwing oil on the fire.. how nice. These are two big powers now trying to pick a fight in their favor and causing fractions in what was once a united world of hackers - when it was purely about technology and politics were left on a personal level (you could hack with someone with a different ideology and respect that). Hey, if it was up to MS, we'd all be fighting and getting nothing done...
You know, most open source developers don't give a shit about licenses. Ironically they form the majority of GPL users, as they just pick a license that seems to be popular. But more and more just escape to MIT (equals BSD without advocacy) or public domain to just avoid all the crap.
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I find it surprising that this issue is simplified to cost of storage. As others noted, who cares about the cost/employee for storage. What's much more important is the cost of information retrieval. I'd like to make a comparison with paper storage, because much research has been done there to cut costs. So putting aside physical storage costs, if you store all crap for a while, the storage just becomes a black hole where nothing can be found back. Storing crap is human nature, a "what if I need this document in two years?" even if the chance is very small. However, it turned out it's -much- more cost efficient to indiscriminately nuke stuff that wasn't labeled vital after not being referenced for three months (your mileage may vary). In those few cases where old documents were needed, the combined cost to reproduce them is much lower. In the meantime, you have a relative very clean and light information store where you can easily find things that are relevant to what you're doing and have recently been doing.
This is of course a classic: Unfinanced entrepeneurs. That said, this guy said he would invest some cash. Which makes me wonder why he just doesn't hire a guy.
Point is, managers manage people. You are there to code.. not them.
Funny thing: here in the Netherlands, for lawyers, it's illegal to be managed by someone without a law degree. In other words, lawyers must be managed by lawyers.
I guess there's something they know, that you don't.
His website relied on being a link-farm. From The Summary: The business centers around providing links for business that sell industrial products.
Are you talking about Sourcetool, or Google? They both sell viewers to advertisers.
Webkit page rendering has always been very fast. On Windows, Chrome feels like Safari. John Resig has some benchmarks for the javascript engines. Disclaimer: He is a guy from Mozilla. http://ejohn.org/blog/javascript-performance-rundown/. Summary: Javascript performance should feel about the same. Google is guilty of pr crap with their own "benchmark".
Upgrade, upgrade, they all want us to upgrade. The battles of the upgrades. Us against them.
Them: Windows Update, which frequently updates itself, and every time it tries again to override my settings of no automatic update in a sneaky way.
Them: Adobe PDF Viewer. I usually hate PDF because it is used in all the wrong places, but when I do download a PDF once a month, I can't view it without trouble, because Adobe -will- hassle me first with their one trillionth critical update of a little viewer, which of course is a huge download. They are -always- updating the viewer. Nightly builds?
Them: Google Update. What? Never asked for it, bumped into it by chance, removed it, and a few days later it will be back. Blech. I don't want DoubleClick installing auto-loading software behind my back which talks behind my back to the Internets.
Me, I'd vote for special, aggressive anti-update virus functionality in all popular anti-virus products.
That said, Steve Balmer must be kicked through the streets, tarred and feathered, for MS' non-update policy to enforce OS updates or to slow the web apps evolution. Everyone still running IE6 must be rounded up and forced to install a decent browser.
Of course you do.
I'd like to close this discussion since you don't seem to be even aware that DoubleClick is Google. Sweet dreems, dude.
Whoa, you seem to be getting quite worked up about a browser release.
Did I? More like a independent run down of not so good things, that the fan boys, like you, can't handle. Like I said, they then continue to brush and laugh away every fair criticism (that style is sign of weakness and lack of substance), like some Obama/Paul/Apple pr victim. Just look at yourself, mister Google pr man. Are you getting paid for this? Geez, dude, calm down, it's just a browser by DoubleClick.
Chrome right now is the browser everyone has been dreaming of.
Well, I haven't been dreaming of a webkit browser since I already had two installed, but moreover, I haven't been dreaming of:
Me, I like the little interface conventions like those that minimize screen estate such as the lack of browser bar while still giving the info, and the webkit speed. For the rest - who gives a shit about some browser by DoubleClick. Now who is exactly the fan boy again? Are you emotionally attached in some way to DoubleClick?
Would you run a browser built by DoubleClick?
Same thing. What's in a name? Apparently enough for an entire collective of product for advertisers/Slashdot users to use a browser by an ad broker who sells that product to clients. Sirs, Madams, I'm calling you nuts. Get a grip.
To all the people who support the thesis:
We don't know what happened, as nerds we should wait for more information instead of jumping to conclusions.
You're plain wrong, and just silly. The exact design of this assassination is:
You know exactly what happened, and that we can get away with it. Fear that.
With that "explanation" the translation is: Local police admits to killing him and even laughs in our faces about it: lalala what can you do?
It is ment to be a warning by using terror and showing that they can get away with it - with anything - so you know that, if you have any ideas, the same might happen to you: get shot in the face while some transparent (by design) excuse is laughed back at the world. It's an extra insult, but most of all, just plan old terror.
Ehm, truth and lies are not direct instruments of truth and deception in Russia. More like FY's. Take for example Georgia and Russia's initial "promises" to the west. Everybody on both sides knows it's all lies, that's not the point - it's their way of saying F*ck You.
Bullocks. As a Dutch guy, may I remind you English is mandatory on Dutch high schools, and, depending on level on education, one or two more languages (in 9/10 cases, French and/or German).
Before 9/11 Europeans just called us "fat and ugly", now they can call us "warmongerer's". Which is Ironic considering that the worse humanitarian disaster in the history of humanity was caused exclusively by Europeans (WWI and WWII).
While there is truth in that, I also think that is quite a statement coming from an Anonymous Coward from the only country on earth who ever used the atomic bomb. Twice. On civilian targets. WWII was dirty beyond imagination from both sides - and that includes the USA.
I run a small European software company..if I'd be hiring an American, I wouldn't be sure what to make of the difference between a "3rd tier" university and Harvard. It can mean anything or nothing, and anything in between. The Harvard guy could have been at Harvard because of many reasons, such as being brilliant, being rich, being connected, etc. Bush graduated at Harvard, I think. The 3rd tier guy could be average, or someone with less financial opportunity, and thus very motivated, whatever. I myself didn't do so great at university. I was a little bit too playful after cruising through high school. (Funnily that worked out great for me, as the playful directions I took turned out to be the next great thing (the Internet) and I was ahead.) Since then I have had many conversations with people with higher grades from more respectable universities, and what can you say? Nothing. The first guy could be much smarter than you, the second might be useless, etc. You have to take them one by one and look at their actual capabilities and intelligence. That said, I think in 9/10 cases there is a big difference between the Computer Science (and software engineering) educated and others, such as self-learners.
That said, the whole idea behind the bad credit card security in general is that Mastercard/Visa etc. regard it cheaper to have relatively bad security and reimburse people when accounts get mobbed, than to have a more secure setup. In general I think that's a healthy attitude if the numbers count up. Of course, we're all paying for that, but we'd also all be paying for better security. The above isn't entirely true anymore, because the design of those setups precedes the Internet and millions of credit card number being stolen by some crackers isn't cost effective by any means, and they're slowly switching (in my area anyway, the EU) to credit cards with pin codes.
Of course, the traditional reply to this argument is that the scope of your traditional security scenarios is locally limited. A lock picker from Elbonia won't trouble you. A script kiddie with a cracklib and a password file might.
Wow, that is the equivalent of running around the streets with a huge sticker attached on your forehead with all your private and address details.
According to wikipedia, Bill Gates wealth was $58 billion in 2007.
A hundredth of 1% of that equals the neglectable sum of $5.8 million. I'd like to be contaminated with that!
We're reaching another tipping point. For example, if you live in the UK, you got the EU internet data retention directive, National ID program, Integrated communications records database, National DNA database, Vehicle movements database, Enhanced CRB database, PNR database, Bank record and credit card monitoring databases, etc. etc.
We're at a tipping point where our privacy is not only taken away completely, but gives way to complete, total control.
In this case, I think it's relevant to mention that Vint Cerf, despite all his legandary accomplishments, is now an ad broker who makes a living by selling your privacy. That billions are involved and that the company he works for prefers profit over privacy and human rights (e.g. China). And that Vint failed to mention this in his optimism.
It's all a toolbox and people pretending otherwise have agendas that range from personal to political and monetary issues.
Hey man, I think you've managed to take away the difference between all multiform products by rendering valid reasons for product diversification as irrelevant.
Ferrari or Skoda - It's all a transportation vehicle and people pretending otherwise have agendas that range from personal to political and monetary issues.
Caviar and spam - Just the same thing and people pretending otherwise have agendas that range from personal to political and monetary issues.
Roseanne Barr, Gisele Bundchen, both women...
Following the big financial success of Indy IV, Lucas has decided to further pursue the theme of self parodying absurdities.
Mel Brooks has been cast as the new Indy. Rick Moranis is close to being signed as the new bad guy.
Work title: Indiana Jones and The Power of The Schwartz.
Parent is underrated. No matter how much sympathy you got for the guy, it's more or less like those people selling new cartoon ideas in the classic Unfinanced Entrepreneurs. You will be on the huge pile described there. There's no shortage of good ideas, on the opposite, it's a mountain range of "good" ideas that will smother your good idea. In the meantime, economics will probably render them all impossible and targeted companies will make another 3d shooter. Again, this is not how I like it to be, this is the reality.
I too particularly dislike their redefinition of the word free for their own purposes. I don't mind their license, it's choice, but it would have been much better if it was presented exactly like that, dryly stating that changes mast be passed back and such. But they decided it to be a gigantic troll, and made it worse by claiming their redefinition is the only freedom, so others, BSD in particular, are not "free" by default. That troll destabilizes the hackers scene, by intend. It's the world turned around for political purposes. And now we also got MS throwing oil on the fire.. how nice. These are two big powers now trying to pick a fight in their favor and causing fractions in what was once a united world of hackers - when it was purely about technology and politics were left on a personal level (you could hack with someone with a different ideology and respect that). Hey, if it was up to MS, we'd all be fighting and getting nothing done...
You know, most open source developers don't give a shit about licenses. Ironically they form the majority of GPL users, as they just pick a license that seems to be popular. But more and more just escape to MIT (equals BSD without advocacy) or public domain to just avoid all the crap.